Rabat – A Royal Navy patrol boat intercepted, on Tuesday, 183 km south-west of Dakhla, a pirogue carrying 27 sub-Saharan irregular migrants.

The pirogue, which had intended to reach the Canary Islands, set sail on February 29, according to a statement by the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces.

The rescued people received first aid on board, before being taken safely back to the Port of Dakhla and handed over to the Royal Gendarmerie for the usual administrative procedures, the same source added.

Source: Agency Morocaine De Presse

GAZA: At least six Palestinians were killed this evening in Israeli airstrikes and shootings targeting civilians and their homes in the central Gaza Strip, according to local and medical sources.

Additionally, an Israeli shelling targeting a house sheltering displaced people, predominantly women and children, west of Nusseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, resulted in five civilian deaths and several injuries.

Meantime, another Palestinian was killed and nine were wounded when the Israeli military fired at civilians waiting for aid near the Kuwaiti roundabout south of Gaza City. The injured were transported to the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

Earlier, four Palestinians were killed and over twenty others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces opened machine gunfire on civilians desperately waiting for aid trucks at the Nablusi roundabout west of Gaza City.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA